Beetle Question

[MarkofStark]

Hey everyone.

So I opened up my newest box and it looks great but 1 cigar, and only one has a beetle hole. No beetle body to be found. So I was wondering would you take the chance putting the remaining cigars in the humidor and check daily or freeze them all right away.

[westg]

Freeze

[Larsy]

Freeze freeze freeze. That's scary stuff

[Duxnutz]

Freeze (and throw that cigar out).

[MarkofStark]

In the freezer now, I've never seen just a single cigar with the beetle hole before so I was curious.

Thanks!

[polarbear]

I had the same thing happen with a box that has just arrived

I turfed the cigar that had the hole in it and froze the rest

Better safe than sorry

[Duxnutz]

In the freezer now, I've never seen just a single cigar with the beetle hole before so I was curious.

Thanks!

hatches inside and eats its way out. Wonder where the lil bugger went?

[stogieluver]

Is it just me, or does that band look very suspect with the way it is joined in the back?

[poisonowns]

Beetle to be safe and freeze them.

[Skyfall]

yikes

[Fuzz]

Freeze, but I disagree that you need to chuck it out. Suggest you offer it up as a sacrifice to the Cigar Gods to prevent future beetle outbreaks and burn it... starting from the foot.

[Firebender]

freeze all the cigars and the box and cedar sheets for at least a week or more. hole means beetle is gone so patch up the hole and smoke it away..

[MarkofStark]

yeah I did exactly that, they are in my deep freeze now, plan on keeping them in there for a week or so, then fridge for a day or 2 and then in the humi.

[Laxman]

Freeze (and throw that cigar out).

x2

[Rushman]

Is it just me, or does that band look very suspect with the way it is joined in the back?

Not just you.

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[Hiroshiro]

That doesn't look real.... Maybe the Picture isn't helping. Can you post a Picture of the other Cigars you got? Something feels off

[fabes]

It does look a little crooked

[El Presidente]

As has been said before ...Freeze just to be safe.

I have seen this a few times over the past couple of years. Single hole in a single cigar in a box. my theory is that the beetle hatched, and fed between the factory and the HSA warehouse freezer.

otherwise your complete box would be in tatters

[Duxnutz]

As has been said before ...Freeze just to be safe.

I have seen this a few times over the past couple of years. Single hole in a single cigar in a box. my theory is that the beetle hatched, and fed between the factory and the HSA warehouse freezer.

otherwise your complete box would be in tatters

So HSA are indeed freezing export stock? I'd heard that but wasn't certain.

[El Presidente]

So HSA are indeed freezing export stock? I'd heard that but wasn't certain.

since 2005

[Nino]

Freeze, throw away the box, smoke the flute

HSA freezes at the Guanabacoa warehouse, taken some pictures there myself, large commercial freezing rooms for mastercases.

[oliverdst]

Those spots on the box do not look good.

Other cigars are ok besides holes?

[Jnaube]

Not just you.

Saw the same thing. Arr the other cigars banded correctly?

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[Ryan]

As others said. Freeze. Always a little heartbreaking to see.

Don't necessarily dump the damaged cigar though.

With a bit of practice you might be able to get a decent "Gabriel's Oboe" out of it..

[Orion21]

I have had one beetle hole in a cigar and it was NC. It was one of three singles I bought from a B&M on Wall Street, so it was in a plastic baggie away from my other sticks. The beetle never turned up.

I just knocked on wood, but my cousin bought a box of JLP Cazadores and a week later he was going through his cigars and found a beetle. He investigated every cigar, feet and all, and no holes. We still don't know where it came from.